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I have become an ardent anti-environmentalist, intent on exploiting all of our natural resources whatever the cost, devoted to reducing the planet to a cinder. Of course this will pass, but it is a natural reaction that you will understand upon learning of Trevor’s efforts to establish his “Green” credentials. I have always thought of myself as being suitably respectful of nature, and to be honest, I would be impressed by the proposals that had been made, if they had been made by anybody else. (However, it is well known that I have no nose, having cut it off a long time ago to spite my face, among others. My life has required a degree of inflexibility.)

The press release rightly points out the imbalances that exist in the natural order. Food chains have been disrupted. We have extinctions coinciding with population booms, chaotic event after chaotic event. It all springs from our foundation as a pastoral and grazing society, which required the removal of natural vegetation, and the resultant diminution of the native species that fed upon it.

Now Trevor is going to do something about it. Pan-humans are at the top of the food chain. Most major native predators have been removed, their ecological niche taken by feral cats and foxes, who do a fairly pathetic job of it.

Unfortunately, many of those predators were unique to Glossolalia and are now gone. Trev-gene are doing useful work which may see versions of them decanted any day soon, but until then, imported predators will have to do the job.

One cannot argue with the press release (after all, I wrote it). Frankly, as a human being, it will be a relief not to be at the top of the food chain any more. That will relieve a lot of the pressure. Komodo dragons have already been released along rivers, where they will have to compete with introduced crocodiles. I am a little nervous that tomorrow will see the arrival of the first container loads of lions and tigers for urban release, however I am assured that there are already many foxes living unseen in urban areas*. Of course, all of the new arrivals are protected under strict environmental laws. Its not that you cannot fight back if attacked, you just better make sure there is no evidence left when the police arrive, only slightly too late.

At least now I will be able to explain to myself the screams I hear in the night. Perhaps I will even be able to return to sleep.